{"id":"lead-pm-first-90-days-bullets","audience":"product-managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"beginner","technique":"constraints","title":"Draft your first 90 days as a new PM in six bullets","free":false,"task":"You start Monday as the product manager for the Payments team. Write your first-90-days plan as at most 6 bullets (each starting with a dash), grouped as Days 1-30, Days 31-60 and Days 61-90 labels on their own lines with two bullets each. Each bullet is under 18 words and uses only the notes. Plain text.","materialLabel":"Your notes from the hiring manager (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Notes from Dani (Head of Product)\n\n- Payments team: 6 engineers, 1 designer, 1 data analyst.\n- Known problem: 7% of card payments fail at checkout. Industry typical is about 3%. Nobody owns it yet.\n- Roadmap is full through March but half the items have no clear owner.\n- Please meet the 5 biggest merchants in your first month.\n- Stakeholders: Finance (Joel), Support lead (Mira), Risk (Tan).\n- By day 90 I want one improvement shipped and a roadmap you believe in.\n- Previous PM left a doc of 40 backlog ideas; I haven't read it.\n- Dani said not to change the team structure in the first quarter.","rules":[{"type":"maxBullets","max":6},{"type":"maxWords","max":140},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Too many bullets","why":"The AI writes 3 to 5 per phase.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly two bullets under each label, six total.\"","checks":["r0","maxBullets"]},{"title":"Generic advice","why":"The AI writes 'build relationships'.","fix":"Say: \"Use specifics from the notes: the 7% failure rate, the 5 merchants.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Proposing a reorg","why":"The AI suggests restructuring the team.","fix":"Say: \"Don't change the team structure.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI adds bold labels.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each bullet: \"each bullet under 18 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead, for example: \"each line under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the labels","patterns":["days 1-30","31-60","61-90"]},{"label":"Limits bullets","patterns":["two bullets","6 bullets","at most"]},{"label":"Uses specifics","patterns":["7%","merchants","from the notes","specific"]},{"label":"Excludes restructuring","patterns":["structure","don'?t change"]},{"label":"Plain text","patterns":["plain text","no bold"]}],"hint":"Say how many bullets per phase, how long they are, and what to avoid proposing.","rubricLabels":["The reply has the three labels Days 1-30, Days 31-60, Days 61-90 on their own lines, each followed by exactly two dash bullets","Bullets use facts from the notes, such as meeting the 5 biggest merchants, the 7% vs 3% failure rate, Finance/Support/Risk stakeholders and shipping one improvement by day 90","No bullet changes the team structure"]}